PROGRAM RECAP · 2025–2026 · ROME & BUCHAREST
Smart Straight Wire: a modular program with Dr. Roberta Lione
Two-day modules in Rome and Bucharest, taking residents and young specialists from orthodontic diagnosis to clinical mechanics, with hands-on work and discussion of their own cases.
March 2025 – January 2026 · Rome and Bucharest
6 two-day modules · 12 days · English
The program ended in January 2026 with a certificate ceremony
One program director for all modules, small group of up to 25 participants
Organized by Upgraded Events
6
modules
12
days of training
2
cities: Rome and Bucharest
25
seats at most
The modules
Every module combined lectures with hands-on work and discussion of participants’ own cases.
01
Diagnosis and treatment planning
March 13–14, 2025 · Rome
Clinical examination and records
Esthetic and cephalometric analysis
Problem list and dental VTO
Hands-on: diagnosis on a clinical case
02
Transverse discrepancy and intra-arch mechanics
June 27–28, 2025 · Bucharest
Maxillary expansion at every age
MBT appliance and sliding mechanics
Archwire sequence and anchorage
Hands-on: bracket positioning and bonding
03
Class I and impacted canines
July 24–25, 2025 · Bucharest
Dento-alveolar discrepancy and bimaxillary protrusion
Missing lateral incisors: open or close the space
Interproximal reduction
Impacted canines: interceptive and surgical-orthodontic treatment
04
Class II malocclusion
September 4–5, 2025 · Bucharest
Diagnosis of Class II
Functional therapy and skeletal maturation (CVM)
Extraction and non-extraction treatment
Hands-on: lacebacks, tiebacks and bendbacks
05
Class III and vertical problems
December 12–13, 2025 · Rome
Open bite and deep bite
True Class III versus pseudo-Class III
Face mask therapy in growing patients
Hands-on: finishing bends on steel archwires
06
Clear aligner treatment
January 16–17, 2026 · Bucharest
Aligner biomechanics and attachments
3D control and ClinCheck review
Patient management and IPR
Aligner options for Class II, Class III and vertical problems
THE SPEAKERS
Dr. Roberta Lione
Program director · Professor and Research Fellow, UniCamillus, Rome
IBO and EBO certified
Teaches in the postgraduate orthodontic program at Tor Vergata
Dr. Chiara Pavoni
Speaker · orthodontist, PhD, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Dr. Francesca Gazzani
Speaker · orthodontist, PhD, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Dr. Elisabetta Cretella Lombardo
Speaker · orthodontist, PhD, University of Rome Tor Vergata
WHERE IT STARTED
The November 2024 course in Bucharest
The program followed the introductory course Dr. Lione held in Bucharest in November 2024, “The Potential of Straight Wire Technique”. Many of its participants went on to enroll in the modules.
GALLERY
Moments from the course
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